Data center consolidation restructures your IT costs for continued growth

Overview: New discovery tools determine logical and physical move dependencies to help limit risk. A more operationally efficient data center can provide the foundation for the future growth of the enterprise.

This paper describes the challenges infrastructure managers face when relocating data centers, the tools available from IBM Research to help lessen the business risk of the move, and the services that IBM provides to plan and execute the move of applications, data and IT equipment.